Modern Humanities

The authors and artists of the Bloomsbury Group

The Mantlepiece

The Mantlepiece, an oil and collage on board

Painting by Duncan Grant dated: 1914

This website was initiated over a decade
ago to document part of my personal study of the arts,
culture, philosophy, religion, language and history as
encompassed within the subject of 'Modern Humanities'.

At the time this was colloquially referred to as 'Humanism'
- a system of thinking in which people, their interests and
developments are made central and dominant, tending to exalt
the cultural and practical knowledge of art, literature and
philosophy rather than the scientific and speculative.

Today 'Humanism' has been adopted to mean different things
so inline with an update of the technical elements of the
website in 2016, it seems appropriate to update the summary
of what it is about.

The website is an aid to help demonstrate how those who were
involved in the various arts during the early 20th Century
interacted with others of a similar oeuvre, but more
interestingly how they interacted and were influenced by
those with different talents and philosophies with whom it
was not immediately apparent they were connected.